After reading "Barbie-Q" and understanding author's purpose, visit the Barbie website and browse the history of Barbie. Consider the role Barbie has played over history and the role it plays today. Come with 5 quotations/facts, etc., that you feel are important to discuss. Make sure that you have a rationale for each quotations/fact you choose. This means come with notes! History of Barbie
Read the article below from NY Daily News. Come with points to discuss and consider all the texts and commercials we have read related to Barbie while doing so. Make sure you have notes for the discussion. Barbie as a real woman is anataomically impossible...
Open Response: Honors. Due Friday, 1.31.14
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Novels and plays often depict characters caught between colliding cultures -- national, regional, ethnic, religious, institutional. Such collisions can call a character's sense of identity into question. From The Confession: Part Two discuss how the main character responds to such a cultural collision. Then write a well-organized essay in which you describe the character's response and explain its relevance to the work as a whole. AP Literature & Composition, 2003
A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel, recounts the psychological or moral development of its protagonist from youth to maturity, when this character recognizes his or her place in the world. Select a single pivotal moment in the psychological or moral development of the protagonist of a bildungsroman. Then write a well-organized essay that analyzes how that single moment shapes the meaning of the work as a whole. AP Literarture & Compostiton, 2013
Research Assignments/Due Dates: Tuesday, 2.11.14: Annotated bibliographies are due
After reading "Barbie-Q" and understanding author's purpose, visit the Barbie website and browse the history of Barbie. Consider the role Barbie has played over history and the role it plays today. Come with 5 quotations/facts, etc., that you feel are important to discuss. Make sure that you have a rationale for each quotations/fact you choose. This means come with notes!
History of Barbie
Barbie Commercials:
Original Barbie Commercial
Hula Hair Barbie
Holday Barbie-2012
Read the article below from NY Daily News. Come with points to discuss and consider all the texts and commercials we have read related to Barbie while doing so. Make sure you have notes for the discussion.
Barbie as a real woman is anataomically impossible...
Open Response: Honors. Due Friday, 1.31.14
Choose from 1 of the following:
Research Assignments/Due Dates:
Tuesday, 2.11.14: Annotated bibliographies are due